Upton Sinclair

"I believe that in the beginning the Universe was created with a desire for justice."

"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cures of the aching hearts and troubled souls of all mankind, is love."

"Man will never truly be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

"Every bit of honest work brings its own cure."

"The most deadly poison is the belief that work is a curse rather than a blessing."

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."

"I have had forty years of hard experience in handling all sorts of human beings."

"The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you do not listen to it, you will never know justice."

"Civilization has always been built by men who had not a dollar in their pockets."

"It is much harder to withstand freedom than authority."

"The problem with the world is that people are afraid of the truth."

"I have taken things into my own hands, and have gathered together all the facts I could."

"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government."

"The very first requirement for success is to believe in yourself and your mission."

"War is the health of the state, but the sickness of the people."

"We cannot expect perfect freedom; we can only expand our limited freedom progressively."

"The essence of capitalism is to turn human beings into money."

"Art is the criticism of life."

"The true wealth of a nation is measured not in gold but in the health of its people."

"Every social movement is a rebellion against the machine; the machine wins if people give up."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Books are mirrors of the soul, and reading them changes who we are."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy; it is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"I write for the future, not for today."

"The highest income of a man is his integrity."

"Desperate times require not desperate measures, but desperate wisdom."

"Every reform must be built on human nature; otherwise it will fail."

"The question is not whether we can afford to do these things, but whether we can afford not to."

"Money is the root of all evil, but the lack of it is the fruit of much suffering."

"In a country of 130 million people, surely there is enough for every man and woman and child."